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Ben Laurie: Phished by Visa: The Aftermath
Well over a year ago I wrote about how stupid the Verified by Visa program is. Apparently the mainstream press have now caught up as fraudsters gear up to exploit this fantastic piece of security...
View ArticleChris Pepper: BIND: Beware forwarders with subdomains
Yesterday I set up a subdomain for an Isilon cluster -- they use the subdomain to handle load balancing across nodes. We were all surprised to discover that the forwarders option in named.conf)...
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Asankha Perera: Transactions spanning multiple resources - an Example with...
We've written a sample that shows use of multiple JTA transactions spanning JMS, JDBC and File system resources. The sample is a solution in reply to a real user question as presented here. The...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-19
Project Middleman : another concurrency shell command; interesting approach to dashboarding the results, with the “mdm.screen” utility provided (tags: mdm unix concurrency shell linux forking...
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Bryan Pendleton: Having trouble upgrading to Maverick Meerkat from behind a...
I had no trouble ugprading my home machine to Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), but at work I'm stalled.I think the problem is due to some sort of interaction with my corporate proxy server.I can apply...
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David Valeri: Using NSS for FIPS 140-2 compliant transport security in CXF
If you have ever supported a client in the US Government, civil or otherwise, you have probably heard of the FIPS 140-2 compliance requirements for cryptographic operations. If you haven’t, stick...
View ArticleChris Pepper: 2 Months of Tech FAIL
Several months ago, my MacBook Pro stopped joining the work WiFi network. This had worked for a while, but then stopped. I don't bring it in much, so it took me a while to realize it was a consistent...
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Danny Angus: Note to self, how to get row numbers in a MySQL SELECT
I've often wondered, idly, how to get MySQL to output a row number column, which would rank sorted and grouped results.Well thanks to this excellent post I've found out how:SELECT *, @rownum:=@rownum+1...
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Adrian Sutton: HttpClient -= Me
I was quite pleased to see Odi’s post this morning stating that the NTLM code in HttpClient (now HttpComponents) has finally been replaced with a more robust and compatible version that supports the...
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Edward J. Yoon: Apache Hama 0.2.0 RC1 is available for download
Apache Hama 0.2.0 RC1 is now available. Try it out and give us feedback. Submit bug reports to our JIRA bug tracker. Learn about Hama by reading the documentation. Hama Architecture Getting Started...
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David Calavera: The Atom Exerciser on Heroku
From some time I've been getting some visits in this blog from Tim's page and I didn't know why, until this morning when I needed to use his Ape instance and I came across it was down. I needed to use...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Creating a Java-first web service using CXF or Metro
This article shows the changes needed to the Maven version of the WSDL-first DoubleIt tutorial to convert it to a start-from-Java process. Follow along with the original tutorial except for these...
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Nick Kew: All in it together? Not me!
Our beloved government tells us we’re all in it together, and must take a share of the pain. I’m struggling to see much pain coming my way from today’s spending review. I was a little concerned about...
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David Crossley: Apache Forrest project murmur
The Apache Forrest project is still very quiet. Over the last months there has been some shuffling toward the long overdue release. Help please.
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Edward J. Yoon: 키보드워리어 혹은 찌질이
디씨인사이드며 어디며 익명게시판을 가면 우리가 흔히 볼수있는것이, (그들 용어대로) 잉여력 쩔어주는 키보드워리어 혹은 찌질이다. 게중 특히, 디씨인사이드 코갤러들이 압권인데, 이들은 내가 볼때 월드클래스다. 전세계 키보드워리어들의 국가대항전같은게 있다면, 단연코 코갤러들의 완승이다. 조심하라. 그 안에서 놀다보면 어느새 당신도 찌질이가 되어버린다. ㅋ...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Java? Not on my Mac.
Apple decided to discontinue Java on the Mac. In other terms, Java will not run on OS X in future. And that means Java is not longer platform independent – an argument which was one of the bullet...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Burn, baby, burn
Yesterday I received a bar of black acetal I bought through eBay. Just for fun, I put it on my desk and set one of my medium-power (200mW) lasers to intersect an edge. It took a moment (the laser...
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Claus Ibsen: Camel in Action - First typeset
The Camel in Action book is well underway. The first chapter has just been typeset and there are 5-6 other chapters in the pipeline as well. Its in fact only chapter 13 which has to be updated on my...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): They've taken out a contract on me
Or for me, as the case may be. Any road, I'm now contracted to work for Red Hat for the next six months. I'm working in the Engineering IT Tower group (metaphorical, not physical) on Top-Secret Crap....
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Bryan Pendleton: JCP Elections
The 2010 Java Community Process Executive Committee Elections are underway.You can find some interesting discussions about the candidates here and here.I think they are all good candidates; it is a...
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